Ingeborg Childs, crusader for disabled kids, to be honored

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Jan. 13, 2013

Ingeborg Childs

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An advertisement in the New York Post that Ingeborg Childs answered changed the course of history for generations of developmentally disabled children in Westchester County.

It was 1949, and her daughter Patricia, who was born with Down syndrome, had just been rejected by the local nursery school. The $3 ad, placed by Ann Greenberg, a local resident, was seeking playmates for her child, who was born with a developmental disability.

Childs, a Larchmont resident, and her husband, William, joined a group of about 25 parents at the Mount Vernon Public Library to discuss ways to help their ...